What we continue to do
The Family Movie Trust Fund serves many people living under the poverty line who can not afford to take their families to a big chain theater and look to us to provide them a first-rate cinema experience at an affordable cost. We issue hundreds of complimentary tickets to all shows at the Ottawa Family Cinema which provide thousands of hours of much-needed entertainment to families in need throughout our Ottawa community.
Why we do
These shows have a very positive effect on all our lives bringing entertainment, education, fun and a sense of belonging for all our families. Everyone deserves and needs to feel part of the larger community, have the opportunity to get out of the home and enjoy a proper theater experience. It often helps to lift spirits just by getting out of the home environment to see a show. This also helps build new generations of movie-lovers bringing hope, joy and positive messages for a better life in the community. We strongly believe that having a form of good film/stage entertainment to see in a theatre is very important to a person’s health and well-being, helping them lift all our spirits.
Examples of who we help
Children's Wish Foundation
Children’s Wish Foundation,
Attn. Vanessa Wilson,
Fundraising Coordinator,
206 – 1800 Bank Street
Ottawa, ON K1V 0W3
28th June 2019
Ref: Fundraising movie – Dumbo (2019)
Dear Vanessa,
As previously discussed, the staff of the Ottawa Family Cinema are pleased to donate the sum of $1,745.00, (as per the enclosed cheque), to the CFW Ottawa. The cinema staff helped to raise these funds for the CWF through Erin Chapman, (Miss Ottawa 2018, Miss Glam World Canada 2019), delegate for Miss World Canada. and CWF of Ottawa.
Thank you for cooperating with us and the Miss World Pageant to screen films as fund-raisers for the good of the community, we are happy that families and children in crisis will benefit from these screenings at the Ottawa Family Cinema.
Please forward a receipt for our records made out to the Ottawa Family Cinema as soon as possible. Once again, a thanks to you and your organization for your continued support to us in operating this non-profit community cinema and registered charity the Family Movie Trust Fund.
You can visit their website at www.chilrenswish.ca
FMTF Ottawa Mission
FAMILY MOVIE TRUST FUND
120 ANNA AVENUE
OTTAWA ON K1Z 7T6
Ms Shirley Roy,
The Ottawa Mission,
35 Waller Street,
Ottawa, ON
K1N 7G4
June 14th 2010
Dear Shirley,
The trustees of the Family Movie Trust Fund are very pleased to donate the sum of $432.00 to the Ottawa Mission. The staff of the Ottawa Family Cinema helped to raise these funds in the Spring of this year with the Irish movie LEAP YEAR on March 13th 2010 with proceeds going to your organization. Thank you for cooperating with us and the cinema to screen films as fund-raisers for the good of the community. We are happy that the Ottawa community will benefit from these showings.
Please forward a receipt for our records made out to the Family Movie Trust Fund as soon as possible. Once again, thanks to you and the staff of the Ottawa Mission for your support to us in operating this registered charity.
You can visit their website at www.ottawamission.com
Trust Document of the "Family Movie Trust Fund"
The purpose of the "Family Movie Trust Fund" shall be:
1) To provide a medium of education and entertainment to children and families living in economically disadvantaged circumstances through the distribution of complementary tickets to the presentation of motion pictures, plays and skits, group activities and live entertainment that are both educational and entertaining.
2) To provide training and education to students and other interested members of the community in the presentation of films, plays and live entertainment, operations of a snack bar, box office, lighting and projection equipment by providing a means by which students can earn their community volunteer credits and groups or individuals can better understand the volunteer community; and
3) To receive and maintain funds and other property and to apply at least a 50% part thereof for charitable purposes through gifting to qualified donees within Canada;
4) To relieve poverty in the Ottawa-Carleton community by supporting qualified donees that will assist families in a time of need or emergency;
5) To prevent and relieve sickness and disability, both physical and mental through donations of funds and/or equipment to hospitals, nursing and convalescent homes, clinics, health resource centers, family support centers and respite care groups who are qualified donees;
6) To help rehabilitate victims of substance abuse and their families, help prevent substance abuse, and to promote awareness of substance abuse, particularly in the community’s youth by supporting qualified donees;
7) To advance education by providing funds to qualified donees (schools and colleges who are registered charities) who award scholarships / bursaries, and educational opportunities to high school students;
8) The Executive of the Family Movie Trust Fund consists of the following;Three (3) Trustees, one of whom shall be a Trustee Chairperson.
Clauses
1) We at the Family Movie Trust Fund operate entirely as a Registered Charity whose sole purpose is to provide a service to the community in which we operate. All monies, donations and any form of income from the operations of the charity will be used solely for the purpose of gifting to other approved registered Charities. The Family Movie trust Fund will at all times be carried on without purpose of gain for any of its Trustees or other volunteer staff and any profits or other accretions to the organization shall be used in promoting its objectives.
2) Only the Trust’s signing officers can administer the monies received by the Trust and all donations made by the Trust.
3) Trustees of the Family Movie Trust Fund will be replaced by election held at our annual General Meeting held in August every year.
Updated Trust Document August 19th 2015
This trust document has been approved and signed by the Trustees of the Family Movie Trust Fund as shown below:
James McNeill
Trustee Chairperson
Ingrid Berger
Trustee
Donita Alexander
Trustee